Worksheets1. REALISM
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 8mins
What is balance of power?
States choose to increase their own capabilities while undermining others, the international system doesn’t let one get far too powerful.
State’s goal is to have power over the international system.
Critics don’t view balance of power as a way to justify aggression and war.
Which theory is seen as the pillar within the field of International Relations?
Idealism
Facism
Realism
In realism who is the principal actor?
The State leader.
The nation-state, there are other actors, but their power is limited
International organizations.
Which author believed that a leader must have power and deception to conduct foreign policy and their primary concern must be national security?
Waltz.
Morgenthau.
Machiavelli.
Who believed that politics is governed by laws that have roots in human nature?
Waltz.
Morgenthau.
Machiavelli.
Why do critics view balance of power as a way to justify aggression and war?
Because they think that realism is a self fulfilling prophecy. Since realism assumes the selfish and uncooperative nature of humanity.
Because it’s the leaders perspective.
Because they have to criticize everything at some point.
Why is realism often used in policy making?
Realism believes that it describes the picture of world politics.
Because realism perpetuates the remarkable world they describe.
Because it doesn’t focus too much on the state as a solid union.
What is “new era”?
It was the emergence of a new pessimist vision of world politics.
Realism was the new black according to world politics
International politics after the Cold War underwent a rapid change that signaled a new era of limited competition between states and opportunities for cooperation. This transformation caused the emergence of an optimistic vision of world politics that discarded realism as “old thinking”.
What is realism?
It’s an optimistic Theory.
It is a theory that argues that unsavory actions like war are necessary tools of statecraft in an imperfect world and leaders must use them when it is in the national interest.
International politics during the time of the Cold War underwent a slow change that signaled a new era of limited competition between states and opportunities for cooperation.
What is the method that the Islamic State groups use to control and increase territory power?
Nothing
War
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